8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People
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in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;
For this reason, we have been comforted by means of your comfort: and we rejoiced exceedingly more indeed, on account of the joy of Titus, for his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth: and his affection for you is the more abundant, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.
so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.
My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be formed in you,
besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.
But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children, so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
